Yes. This is why Saddam - a secular ruler - ruled as a dictator and kept the mullahs suppressed, and didn't allow free elections that would result in fundamentalist rule.
You said — “Yes. This is why Saddam - a secular ruler - ruled as a dictator and kept the mullahs suppressed, and didn’t allow free elections that would result in fundamentalist rule.”
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And if he hadn’t invaded Kuwait, if he hadn’t been funding the P.A. (Palestinian Authority) for their terrorist acts, and if he hadn’t been building up his stokcs of WMD (and especially necular weapons), and if he hadn’t been against the United States and funding those other terrorist enemies of the United States — then — he might have still remained as that dictator.
I guess he just made the wrong decisions...